What happens to information when you use this site — and why there is so little of it.
Last updated: 19 August 2026
This policy explains what happens to information when you use Reelsave. The short version is that there is very little to explain, because the service is built so that it does not need to know who you are.
There are no user accounts on this site, so there is nothing to register for and no profile attached to you. We never ask for your Instagram username or password, and there is no point in the service where you log in to anything.
We do not keep a history of what you have downloaded. Because there are no accounts, there is nothing for such a history to be attached to.
When you paste a link, it is sent to our server, used to locate the media on Instagram's servers, and then discarded. The address of the media file is held briefly in memory — around fifteen minutes — so that a second person asking for the same reel does not cause another request to Instagram. After that it is gone.
The video or image itself is never copied onto our storage. It is streamed from Instagram's servers through our server to your device as you download it, and no part of it remains once the transfer finishes.
Like any web server, ours records basic technical information about requests: the IP address making the request, the time, the page or endpoint requested, and the browser's user-agent string. These logs exist so the service can be kept running and abuse can be spotted. They rotate automatically and older entries are overwritten.
Your IP address is also held in memory for a minute at a time as part of rate limiting, which stops any single source from overwhelming the service. It is not written to a database and is not linked to the links you paste.
The site itself does not set cookies to track you, and it does not require cookies to work. Your browser may store ordinary technical items such as local preferences, which never leave your device.
This site is supported by advertising. Where advertisements are served, they are supplied by third-party networks, which may include Google AdSense. Those networks may set their own cookies or use similar technologies to measure performance and, depending on your settings and location, to show more relevant advertisements.
We do not pass any information about you to advertisers, because we do not hold any. What those networks collect is governed by their own policies rather than ours. You can review and change how Google uses data for advertising through the Google Ad Settings page, and most browsers allow you to block third-party cookies entirely.
This service is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. Since we collect no personal information from anyone, this is largely a formality — but if you believe a child has provided information through this site, please contact us and we will look into it.
Data protection laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights over personal information held about you, including the right to see it, correct it, or have it deleted. Those rights are straightforward to satisfy here: apart from short-lived server logs, we hold nothing about you that could be retrieved, corrected, or erased.
If you would like your IP address removed from the current logs, write to us and we will clear the relevant entries.
All traffic between your browser and our servers is encrypted with HTTPS. Download links generated by the service are cryptographically signed and expire after an hour, so a link cannot be reused or altered to point somewhere else.
If this policy changes, the revised version will appear on this page with a new date at the top. Material changes — for example, if analytics were ever introduced — will be described rather than quietly folded in.
Questions about this policy can go to support@getinstareel.com.